Research goal

This is a joint project between Transport Phenomena Section, Department of Chemical Engineering at  the TU Delft and the Laboratory for Transport Processes and Reactions of Prof. P. Rudolf von Rohr at ETH Zurich. The project addresses the combined experimental and numerical study of turbulent flows over complex surfaces with heat transfer and distribution of passive scalars. The final goal is to perform in parallel  state-of-the-art experiments (stereo PIV, LIF, TLC) and numerical simulations (LES, hybrid RANS/LES, DES, RANS) for different wall configurations over a range of Reynolds numbers and intensities of the wall heat flux and scalar emissions.

The wake structures and vortex shedding in dynamic LES simulation (performed at TU Delft) of the flow and mass transfer within a complex porous segment of a micro-reactor for which a detailed PIV and LIF measurements are performed at ETH.

Funded by

ETH Zurich
HPC-Europa2
TU Delft